Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Aeronautical Digest
Author: Aeronautical Digest
Author: United States Army Aviation Digest
Author: Empire of the Air
Author: Jenifer Van VleckPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Jenifer Van Vleck's fascinating history reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States' ascent to global preeminence in the twentieth century. As U.S. military and economic influence grew, the federal government partnered with the aviation industry to deliver American power across the globe and to sell the idea of the "American Century" to the public at home and abroad. The airplane promised to extend the frontiers of the United States "to infinity," as Pan American World Airways president Juan Trippe said. As it accelerated the global circulation of U.S. capital, consumer goods, technologies, weapons, popular culture, and expertise, few places remained distant from Wall Street and Washington. Aviation promised to secure a new type of empire--an empire of the air instead of the land, which emphasized access to markets rather than the conquest of territory and made the entire world America's sphere of influence. By the late 1960s, however, foreign airlines and governments were challenging America's control of global airways, and the domestic aviation industry hit turbulent times. Just as the history of commercial aviation helps to explain the ascendance of American power, its subsequent challenges reflect the limits and contradictions of the American Century.
Bibliography of Aeronautics
Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for AeronauticsPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
Author: Bibliography of Aeronautics. Pt. 1-50
Author: United States. Work Projects AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Aero Digest
Author: Outline of a Suggested Junior College Program in General and Vocational Aviation
Author: United States. Civil Aeronautics AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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